Gideon Quaison

Gideon Quaison holds an undergraduate degree in Health Studies and is a graduate student at the University of Toronto. He is currently enrolled in the Dalla Lana’s Master of Public Health program. He describes himself as an advocate for healthier cities and a health equity researcher. Gideon is passionate about social change and how it can influence the lives of marginalized groups in Toronto. In addition, the concept of Physical Literacy and how this relates to youth is an area of interest to him.

Gideon has recently joined the Wellesley Institute as a summer practicum student. He is working on a project that aims to improve the educational, economic and social outcomes for marginalized youth in Ontario.

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We would like to acknowledge this sacred land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. It has been a site of human activity for 15,000 years. This land is the territory of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. The territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and Confederacy of the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes.

Today, the meeting place of Toronto is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work in the community, on this territory.

Revised by the Elders Circle (Council of Aboriginal Initiatives) on November 6, 2014

In the spirit of equity and inclusion, if we can improve on this statement, please contact us. Thank you.